66 



Table II. Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, 1930 





Jan. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



Apr. 



May. 



Jun. 



Jul. 



Aug. 



Sep. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



Bayard: 



























High 



65 



68 



67 



88 



88 



88 



94 



95 



90 



77 



73 



50 



Low 



-7 



-10 



5 



23 



27 



27 



34 



30 



32 



8 



-14 



-12 



Huntington: 



























High 



72 



80 



76 



92 



92 



105 



103 



107 



98 



85 



78 



59 



Low 



1 



6 



IS 



30 



40 



42 



53 



48 



44 



24 



8 



14 



Moorefield: 



























High 



80 



81 



74 



98 



96 



99 



109 



112 



106 



86 



74 



57 



Low 



-11 



-4 



15 



23 



34 



29 



41 



39 



39 



13 



-1 



-5 



Rainfall is not so evenly distributed over the state as might 

 be expected. It reaches its greatest amount in the high moun- 

 tains in the central part of the state, where the most luxuriant 

 forests occur, and its lowest point just east of the Alleghenies, 

 where semi-arid conditions are suggestive of the southwestern 

 deserts. At Pickens, in Randolph County, the normal precipi- 

 tation is 64 inches annually; at Upper Tract, in Pendleton 

 County, hardly 50 miles to the northeast, it is only 29 inches. 

 In the "great drought year" of 1930, while Pickens was re- 

 ceiving ample rainfall, 44 inches, the quantity received at 

 Upper Tract dwindled to 9 inches. In one month of that year 

 (March), Pickens received 6 inches of rainfall, 2/3 of the amount 

 Upper Tract received in the entire 12 months. 



The flora of West Virginia has been studied by many of the 

 best known botanists of the country (5). Among these may be 

 mentioned Michaux, who travelled down the Ohio and down 

 the Shenandoah, collecting along the West Virginia shores; 

 Pursh, who collected in Jefferson, Greenbrier, and Monroe 

 Counties; Rafinesque, who collected along the Ohio, South 

 Branch, and Shenandoah; Asa Gray, who travelled through 

 Tygart's Valley, Shaver's Fork, and the headwaters of the 

 Kanawha; Canby, who collected around Grafton; John Merle 

 Coulter, who collected in the Kanawha Valley; and John Don- 

 nell Smith, who collected near Grafton and Mannington. The 

 most exhaustive and systematic studies of the flora of the state 

 were carried on independently by C. F. Millspaugh and by 

 John L. Sheldon, the former the author of the latest check-list, 

 dated 1913. Other prominent botanists who have made collec- 

 tions in West Virginia include John K. Small, N. L. Britton, 

 Kenneth K. Mackenzie, P. A. Rydberg, J. M. Greenman, A. S. 



